The best of arts and culture from the BBC

Turner - Light and Landscape

Art historian Leslie Primo explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of perhaps the UK’s most beloved artist

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This Cultural Life: Carlos Acosta

The Cuban ballet star talks to John Wilson about the key moments in his cultural life

BBC iPlayer

The Royal Ballet: The Dante Project

Journey through the afterlife in Wayne McGregor’s ballet from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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Amazing Arts documentaries on iPlayer

Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story

Young Carlos is a happy-go-lucky street urchin until his father decides that he is to audition for Ballet school

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Andy Warhol's America

He was a pioneering artist and cultural icon - and his work is a history of 20th-century America.

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Ballet Black: The Waiting Game

Following preparations for their new piece choreographed by South African dancer Mthuthuzeli November

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Inside Cinema

Star Trek

We boldly go into space with the crew of the Starship Enterprise on their cinematic adventures

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Carry On

How the British comedy series serves as the perfect case study in changing tastes in cinema, culture and humour

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David Bowie

How the Starman himself looked to the silver screen to inspire his greatest creations

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Discover the Arts on Sounds

Turn Up for the Books

Author Elizabeth Macneal joins Dan Smith, Irenosen Okojie and Simon Savidge to talk all things books

BBC Sounds

Experience Classical

Discover classical music from the BBC through hundreds of unique audio recordings

BBC ARCHIVE

This Cultural Life

Guests including Nicole Kidman, Douglas Stuart, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Evelyn Glennie reveal what fires their imaginations

BBC SOUNDS

Between the Covers

Picks from Fleur East, Greg James, Imogen Stubbs and Lloyd Griffith

Selections this week include a dark tale of obsession and a light-hearted satire of social class

BBC Arts

Picks from Ben Willbond, Jason Forbes, Prue Leith and Sharleen Spiteri

The book choices this week include pilgrims in Medieval England and a visit to an 18th Century perfume factory

BBC Arts

Picks from Alan Davies, Iain Stirling, Sarah Kendall & Suzi Ruffell

Selections include a dark comic anti-war story, a collection of demented visions and an iconic 19th Century novel

BBC Arts

Exciting interactives from BBC New Creatives

Become a character in a sentient wasteland

Deadly Structures is a playable sonic experience set in a world that cannot be seen

New Creatives

A capitalist hellscape in Virtual Reality

Is the offer of an urban utopia with good jobs and improved lifestyles anything more than an empty promise?

BBC New Creatives

Explore a remote landscape scarred by human activity

Artist and activist Georgia Tucker uses virtual reality to show viewers worlds that are both alien and familiar

BBC NEW CREATIVES

New works by disabled, neurodivergent and D/deaf artists

Silent World

Visualising the Covid-19 pandemic through the eyes of Signkid, a deaf-rapper.

BBC iPlayer

The Cat, The Mouse and The Sausage

Three strangers sharing a small flat encounter big problems in this animated adaptation.

BBC iPlayer

How To Thrive In 2050!

A call for action for a creative, equitable and ‘neuro-fantastic’ future by an octopussy.

BBC iPlayer

Elsewhere in Arts & Culture

Remembering Maud Sulter

The Scottish-Ghanian artist situated black women back in the centre of the frame

Art UK

'I'm learning just as much as I'm giving'

Seven questions for British-Nigerian painter Tunji Adeniyi-Jones

Art UK

Stories from Holburne Museum with Josie Long

Staff and volunteers share their favourite objects, personal picks and hidden gems from the Bath museum

Art Fund

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